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  • TITLE
  • CERTIFICATE
  • DECLARATION
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • NOTES
  • II MAKING OF THE NOVELISTS: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND ANITA DESAI
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Personal History
  • Early Impact of her Family Background
  • Early signs of desolation
  • Chain of deaths in the family, and its impact on Virginia.
  • Her Hypersensitivity
  • Bloomsbury Influence
  • Marriage
  • The Socio-Political Influence
  • Her Attitude To Religion
  • The Impact of Psychology and Psycho analysis.
  • Virginia Woolf, the Writer
  • Last Days and Suicide
  • Anita Desai
  • Personal History
  • Her Growth and Development as a Novelist
  • As a Short Story writer
  • As a Novelist
  • As an Indo-Anglian Novelist
  • Her concept of India
  • Her Mission and Purpose in Writing
  • The Language She Uses
  • The Autobiographical Element in Her Novels
  • The Characters in Desais Novels
  • Attitude to Religion
  • NOTES
  • III INNER DESOLATION
  • Inner desolation, a Historical Perspective.
  • Inner Desolation - A Psycho-analytic View
  • Individuation Theory
  • Inner Desolation: An Essential part in the Process of Individuation
  • Inner Desolation: As a Spiritual Experience
  • The Protagonists in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Anita Desairemain Stagnated in their Inner Desolation
  • Absence of Natural Religious Fr~nction- a Cause for Desolation
  • Attachment to Earthy Objects -An Obstacle to Inner Tranquillity
  • The Feminist Perspective
  • Antigone, the True Model of Female development
  • Significance of androgyny or the union of male and female principles
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • IV DIGGING OUT CAVES: MRS. DALLOW AND CRY THE PEACOCK
  • Septimus and Maya - Schizophrenics
  • Theme of Insanity in Mrs.Dalloway and Cry the Peacock
  • Signs of Paranoia in Septimus
  • Mayas Frenzied Consciousnes
  • Beauty and Ugliness-the binary opposites that torment Mayas consciousness
  • The Fragmented Self
  • The Beginning of the Inward Journey
  • Feminine Frustration - Maya, Rezia and Clarissa Dalloway
  • Septimus underdeveloped Personality
  • Septimus sentimental attachment to Evans
  • Rezia - Septimus - binary opposites
  • Mayas disintegrated Self
  • The Moon and the Albino Astrologer
  • Evans and the albino astrologer--the shadowy sides of Septimus and Maya
  • Moments of Epiphany for Septimus and Maya
  • Delirious visions
  • Dr. Bradshaw, Symbol of patriarchal tyranny in Septimus effeminateconsciousness
  • Idea of Suicide
  • Mayas ontological Insecurity
  • The Peacock Dance - A Death Imagery
  • Gautamas Theory of Detachment - A Transient concept
  • Going down in flames - A syn~ptomo f Bipolar Disorder
  • Inability to individuate - Hence the suicide
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • V THE ISLAND ILLUSIONS: TO THE LIGHTHOUSE AND WHERE SHALL WE GO THIS SUMMER-A COMPARISON
  • The Island Experience
  • The Overprotective Mothers -Mrs. Ramsay and Sita
  • The Male-Female Conflict
  • Mr. Ramsay, Raman and Babaji - Symbols of the barren male egotism
  • Mrs.Ramsay and Sita - Symbols of feminine fecundity
  • The Voyage from Illusion to Reality
  • The Androgynous daughters -Lilly Briscoe and Menaka.
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • VI THE UNSHELLED SNAILS THE EXISTENTIAL ANGUISH EXPERIENCED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE WAVES AND THE VOICES IN THE CITY
  • Inner Desolation, an offshoot of Existential attitude
  • Two phases of Existentialism
  • Human Predicament in the Modern World
  • Existential Anguish as depicted in Woolf s The Waves and Desais Voices in the City
  • Inadequacy of human relationships
  • Existential Alienation
  • Louis and Nirode - a comparison
  • Nirode and Louis- the contrast
  • Attitude to Religion
  • The Snail Imagery
  • Louis attempts at breaking the fetters
  • Louiss Success is superficial
  • Nirode and the Snail Imagery
  • Unlike Louis, Nirode shuns worldly success
  • Communion Vs. Detachment - the existential paradox
  • Regeneration in Nirode
  • Rhoda and Monisha-A cornparison
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • VII THE OAK TREE AND THE MIGRANTS: THE YEARS AND CLEAR LIGHT OF THE DAY
  • The Socio-Political Background and the Structural Pattern of The Years
  • Clear Light of Day -the Socio-Political Background and the structure
  • The Children in the Unhappy Families
  • The Patriarchs - Colonel Abel Pargiter and Mr. Das
  • The Effect of Parental Neglect on the Children
  • The Fathers and Sons
  • Antigone and the tree symbol
  • Eleanor and Bim
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • VIII CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY